Bucky Sinister

***BUCKY SINISTER is a San Francisco standup comedian and author. With a set of hard-earned chops from his misspent years on the punk circuit, Bucky's comedy continues the tradition of the storyteller comics such as Janeane Garofalo and Jen Kirkman. His comedic inspirations include Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Greg Proops, and Patton Oswalt. For the in-a-rush pundit, Bucky’s material is an unholy crossover of influences including Charles Bukowski, David Sedaris, and Sam Kinison. On What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia, Bucky tackles a harrowing, side-splitting array of personal and social demons such as video store renter shame, the most politically correct café in the entire United States, and atheism versus tidal wave obsessed twelve-steppers. Not to mention rock songs about heroin being used to sell birth control pills, the social phenomenon of 'Extreme Brads', real and imagined dates with Laura Ingalls and Wonder Woman, and a show-stopping tale about his non-monogamous punk rock speed-freak stalker. What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia is Bucky's recorded debut and the inaugural release from the San Francisco comedy label Talent Moat. Bucky has performed at venues such as The Purple Onion (San Francisco), The Punchline (SF), Hemlock Tavern (SF), and Largo (Los Angeles) appearing on bills with Greg Proops, Jello Biafra, Lydia Lunch, Craig Ferguson, Fiona Apple, Drew Carey, Richard Strange (The Black Rider), and Will Franken. 
 
Bucky is the author of All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go (Gorsky Press,2007), Whiskey and Robots (Gorsky Press, 2004), and King of the Roadkills (Manic D Press, 1995). His poetry was included in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia was recorded live in San Francisco at Club Chuckles (“featuring some of the rawest, out-there shtick in the Bay Area” – SF Weekly), the Hemlock Tavern’s germinal “comedy in the rock club” monthly series that’s been in operation since 2003. 
 
“Bucky Sinister writes the way an evil beaver chews up a maple trunk – bucky and sinister. [His book] ‘Whiskey & Robots’ elicits the laughter of disbelief.” –Patton Oswalt